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AI Economics

"We get asked about AI at every board. I do not have an answer I would want to defend."

Fixed priceCEO or CFO

Context

Who it is for
A CEO or CFO who has approved AI spend, or held it back, and now has to explain the position to the board.
Why it matters
Most businesses can't say in one place what AI is running, what it costs at real volume or what it has earned. Staff also use AI tools nobody approved.

Approach

First

Find out what's running

What was approved, what was built, what is in daily use, and what people started using without asking.

Then

Result, cost and ownership

For each case: what it has delivered against where you started, including any revenue; what it cost to build, buy or partner, and what it costs to run at your real volumes; and what it does to your own capability, your data and the lock-in you've accepted.

Then

A call on each case

Continue, stop, restart on different assumptions, or wait with a set point to look again. Improving one of the three usually costs you on another, so each call sets out the balance and the assumptions behind it.

Finally

Your AI position

I draft with you a short written position for the board: what you build, what you buy and what you keep in-house. There's a shareholder version too, if you need one.

Deliverables

This looks back at the AI you already run. To find and test new use cases, see the AI Use Case Lab.

Not included: building pipelines, technical audit of the models, tool selection and acceptable-use policy.

  • A report on what is running, including what nobody approved
  • Build cost, running cost, revenue and strategic value, case by case
  • A call on each case
  • The financial model, yours to re-run
  • A written AI position for the board, and a shareholder version if needed
  • A working session with the exec team

Terms

Fixed price, agreed after a short call. How I work →

Always open to a conversation.

martin@scalepointpartners.com
Or message me on LinkedIn.